Ralph B. Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at Temple University, USA, and a fellow of the American Society of Criminology. He holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from Johns Hopkins University and has authored or co-authored over 90 refereed journal articles in criminal justice, criminology, social psychology, sociology, public health, urban affairs, and law and human behavior. Before landing at Temple University, he held positions at Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins University.

 

His externally funded research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Justice, and other sources.

 

He has previously served on the editorial boards of Criminology and Public Policy, Environment & Behavior, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and Social Psychology Quarterly.

 

He is the author of one previous textbook, Research Methods in Criminal Justice (McGraw-Hill, 1994), In addition, he is the author of three scholarly books: Breaking Away from Broken Windows (Westview, 2001), Community Criminology (New York University Press, 2015), and Human Territorial Functioning (Cambridge University Press, 1988). He also edited the volume Urban Neighborhoods (Praeger, 1986); and was a co-editor of Crime and Justice 2000 Volume 1: Continuities and Change (National Institute of Justice, 2000).

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He began teaching multilevel models to graduate students in the late 1990s. Lists of publications and descriptions of research interest areas appear at www.rbtaylor.net.

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Before becoming an academic, he worked in a residential treatment center for pre-delinquents in Tilton, NH, and spent a summer driving Pintos around the Baltimore-DC Metro area for Expressway Messenger Service.